Caroline Hatem is a theatre director, dancer and actress. She studied Philosophy (Paris 8), acting (University of Arizona, Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New-York) and specialized in dance in the United States, in France and Lebanon.     She’s worked with choreographer Alice Massabki, with theatre directors Edwin Gerard, Vanessa Ford, Koteit/ Andraos, Danielle Labaki, Nabil El Azan and filmmakers Luke Stettner, Michael Stone, Jean-Claude Codsi, Fouad Alaywan, Lara Saba, Rana Maalouf, Marwan Khneisser, Mohammad Sabbah, Anthony Yazbeck,  Salomé Lamas.    She has created herself How they thought a table is a table (2008), The Joy Series (2009), the dancing solo of the collective piece JoKaRi (2009), Solitude (2010) the collective work Le Critère de Griffith (Beirut, 2015).     Her first play, Al Beyt, by Arzé Khodr, has toured in Lebanon and Tunis  (Carthage Theatre Festival) and won Best actress and Best script at the first edition of the Lebanese National Theatre Festival (2018).     Caroline teaches dance and movement for actors at the Art&Movement Dance School and at the Lebanese University.     She’s co-founder and president of YAZAN, a platform for artists and art practitioners offering resources, support for their projects as well as pedagogic programs.